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"Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"There is no fire without some smoke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"One swallow maketh not summer."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Fieldes have eies and woods have eares."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"A cat may looke on a King."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Have yee him on the hip."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Time trieth troth in every doubt."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Mad as a march hare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"Set the cart before the horse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"The moe the merrier."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"The moone is made of a greene cheese."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"I know on which side my bread is buttred."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii.
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"Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see?"
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"The wrong sow by th' eare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Love me, love my dog."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"An ill winde that bloweth no man to good."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
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"For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake?"
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Every man for himselfe and God for us all."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"This hitteth the naile on the hed."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
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"Enough is as good as a feast."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain